Brexit helps case for Scottish independence, says Nicola Sturgeon

The first minister told the SNP conference that she was more confident than ever that Scotland will be independentJANE BARLOW/PA

Nicola Sturgeon accused Theresa May of presiding over “chaos and incompetence” at Westminster as she claimed that Brexit would determine “the context” in which Scotland became independent.

In her closing speech to the SNP conference in Glasgow yesterday, the Scottish first minister pointedly compared the future that Scotland could have outside the UK with that offered by the Conservatives and Brexit.

She warned, however, that any second vote on independence would wait until the future relationship between Britain and Europe became clear, because that would “determine the context” for independence.

Ms Sturgeon called on party members to be patient but insisted that Brexit had only strengthened the case for Scotland to break away. “As we wait for this phase of negotiations to conclude and for…

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